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Vitrina

Vitrina is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.

Description

The shell is globular. There is no apertural membrane. The mantle lobe is very small. There is no penial appendix, no vagina, which means that penis, oviduct and spermatheca duct join at a common point.

These are closely allied species, in which the internal organization is in many cases more distinctive than the external aspect of the shell.

Distribution

These species occur in North America, Greenland, Europe and northern Asia.

Species

Species with the genus Vitrina include:

Synonyms:
  • † Vitrina suevica <small>Sandberger, 1872</small>: synonym of † Phenacolimax suevica <small>(F. Sandberger, 1872)</small> (superseded combination)
Taxa inquirenda:
  • Vitrina amoena <small>Morelet, 1884</small>
  • Vitrina angolensis <small>Morelet, 1867</small>
  • Vitrina bozasi <small>de Rochebrune & Germain, 1904</small>
  • Vitrina compacta <small>Preston, 1912</small>
  • Vitrina josephinae <small>Emberton & Griffiths, 2009</small> (generic affinity uncertain)
  • Vitrina madagascariensis <small>E. A. Smith, 1882</small>
  • Vitrina marojeziana <small>Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994</small>
  • Vitrina ugandensis <small>Thiele, 1911</small>

References

Studer, S. (1820). Kurzes Verzeichnis der bis jetzt in unserm Vaterlande entdeckten Conchylien. Naturwissenschaftlicher Anzeiger der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 3 (11): 83–90; (12): 91–94. Bern

  • Hubendick B. (1954). The relationships of East African Vitrinae with notes on the taxonomy of Vitrina. Arkiv för Zoologi. 6(5): 83–96
  • Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

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